Furman Center and NYU’s Institute for Education and Policy Awarded MacArthur Housing Matters Grant

March 13, 2012: Researchers at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and NYU’s Institute for Education and Policy were awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation How Housing Matters research grant. The Furman Center will use the $202,000 grant award to investigate how housing matters for children by exploring whether housing vouchers enable recipients to move to neighborhoods with higher performing public schools, and whether they shape the educational performance of their children. The study will use data on 200 of the largest school districts across the country, including New York City, to compare the quality of schools in the zones in which housing voucher holders live to the quality of schools where other assisted households live, as well as zones where other poor households live. Learn more about the MacArthur grant and the Housing Matters initiative here.